Mar 6 Seminar: Margaret Jane Radin

03/06/2008 - 16:10
03/06/2008 - 18:30
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Seminar Information:

Margaret Jane Radin

Professor of Law, UM

"A Comment on Information Propertization and Its Legal Milieu"

Margaret Jane Radin 3/6 seminar streaming audio file 

Time and Location:

4-5:30 pm
UM: 411 West Hall
WSU: 313 State Hall (via videoconference)

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Seminar Description:

See below for attached article.

The law of property (that is, propertization) provides owners with control over resources. In the law governing tangible property, which provides owners with control over tangible resources, the scope of propertization has traditionally been limited by other basic liberal legal commitments that, along with property, undergird the legal system. These commitments include: freedom of contractual exchange in a scheme of contractual ordering; free markets (competition policy); and freedom of expression. In this essay I suggest that legal decisions about the scope of information propertization should similarly take account of these other basic legal commitments. As I recount in the essay, some judicial and legislative decisions involving information propertization have seemed too single-minded and rather unmindful of their legal milieu. Such decisions can result in over-propertization.

Seminar Speaker Bio:

Margaret Jane Radin teaches Contracts, Internet Commerce, Patent, and other courses and seminars dealing with property theory, the interaction between property and contracts, and especially the evolution of property and contract in the digital era. She is the author of two books exploring the problems of propertization, Contested Commodities (Harvard University Press 1996) and Reinterpreting Property (Univ of Chicago Press 1993), as well as co-author of a casebook, Internet Commerce: the Emerging Legal Framework (Foundation Press 2d ed. 2005). Before joining the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School, Professor Radin taught at the University of Southern California and at Stanford University, and she has been a visiting professor at Harvard, UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall), and NYU. During 2006-07 Professor Radin was the inaugural Microsoft Fellow in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University, where she developed a course in patent law and innovation policy for engineers and students of public policy. Professor Radin received her AB from Stanford, where she majored in music, and her M.F.A. in music history from Brandeis University. She was advanced to candidacy for the Ph.D. in musicology at UC Berkeley before she changed her career path to law and received her J.D. from the University of Southern California in 1976. She remains an avid amateur flutist. More information is available at http://cgi2.www.law.umich.edu/_FacultyBioPage/facultybiopagenew.asp?ID=2...

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